#absurdist humour

[overheardbyvarioustherapists]

Crowley: The ordinary days that we live in may, in fact, be a series of miracles. Vil, standing with the rest of the housewardens: OK, but why are we gathered around a goat?

[majorbaby]

you know, it's a merciful thing that there was shit all continuity on MASH because can you imagine poor Margaret in "A War for all Seasons", unable to order a winter coat from the Sears catalogue, if she could remember that one time TrapHawk ordered two gorilla suits to their tent? for a bit??

[dontyoulistentome]

Crystal Palace.

Can't say if that sounds more like a stripper name, or a Barbie landmark.

[armand-dearest]

I am in PAIN laughing so hard at DougDoug's new video, Jesus fucking Christ someone help me

[thesulliedone]

Holy shit they gave Rayman guns.

[gripes-withthesun]

Ik Beckett describes Waiting for Godot as a tragicomedy in two acts but might i suggest using the term come-tragedy more often for works where it's all fun and games till it's not? Tragicomedy just has a different connotation, one of some sort of resolution in conflicts. Come-tragedy will entail the fun first!!! Then the horrors 🎉 Like having your dessert at the start of the meal

[lythinksabittoomuch]

Okay Austin and ally is actually so many what gives it the right

[forgottenbones]

[skylordhorus]

huh. growing up seeing 9/11 jokes being the low hanging fruit of shallow edgy sources like south park and family guy, especially as a non american, and then seeing them being mainstreamed/more frequent sure is Something

[samw3000]

Heavenly Malfunction

Initially published November 2020https://palmsupward.com/2020/11/22/journal-entry-sun-nov-22/Sam

[keepthedelta]

I feel like the F1 film should be a comedy not whatever it is at the moment

for me, i think if you're going to do a serious f1 film, and make it dramatic etc. etc. you should probably respect the sport enough to make it even semi-accurate which they clearly haven't done. and if you're not going to respect the sport enough to make it accurate then you should lean into the absurdist humour inherent in f1.

because this is, objectively, a ridiculous sport. one of the sports oldest and most historic teams is essentially a genuine competitor to the catholic church in terms of italian devotion, and another uses excel to keep track of car parts. one time the drivers went on strike and slept together in a banquet hall filled with mattresses and played piano and made mpreg jokes. some of f1's most iconic figures have played characters in asterix or cars. drivers have thrown juice all over each other during a press conference, and showed up in helicopters to wake each other up in the morning. one of the most dominant forces in modern f1 is an energy drink company. multiple current drivers have instagrams for their pets where they pretend their pets can talk. drivers have shown up to track walks in their pyjamas to protest the early hour and then found out that the track was still being resurfaced. one driver once tried to push his car over the finish line and then fainted from heat exhaustion. it literally used to be run by an evil goblin and the son of a famous british fascist. one time a diamond was glued to the nose of a car for a pr stunt and then the driver crashed and the diamond was never found again. one time one of the most famous and successful drivers of all time got kidnapped and held hostage by cuban revolutionaries, which mostly consisted of him being taken to dinner and signing autographs, and afterwards he was very positive about them. it's just a ridiculous sport in so many ways and a filmmaker could do so much with it if they were willing to lean into that, rather than trying to let brad pitt live out his inane fantasies

[high-voltage-rat]

man okay so I used to play mechquest and dragonfable back in like, 2008 when I was a kid with very little patience to follow a storyline. coming back as an adult and finishing mechquest has absolutely slapped me silly with how deep and serious the story is in between all the absurdist humour. I have. so many emotions over the whole storyline, and especially so many thoughts about the unique form of tragedy that is The Reset.

You save the world but it's not the world anymore. You and your friends survive but you don't know each other anymore- have nothing left of the lives you fought to keep. You 'save' everything but it's still all gone. Everything you knew and loved, gone, and you don't even know what you've lost. You can't even keep the memory of what you had- and that's almost kinder compared to being one of the 3ish people who DO remember... and have to live around everyone else who doesn't, knowing their closest friends look at them and see a stranger, and that they may as well be because they aren't that person they remember being.

And to top it all off, that terrible sacrifice doesn't even end it. you're still left fighting impossible and devastating wars over and over. It's the tragedy of doomed time loops with extra layers of devastating all over the place. The GEARS University students being forced to become soldiers because they're all that's left to protect their homeworld. The horrors of the Shadowscythe virus taking over friends and loved ones you may be forced to put down to save yourself. The town of Falconreach burning over and over because no matter how hard they fight, it's never enough. The people like Sha'rae who sacrifice themselves to try and prevent tyrrany from seizing power, only for it to be utterly useless.

Anyway the brainrot is severe and especially dangerous since I'm coming into exam season and all my hyperfixated brain wants to do is chew on glass about these games.

[directdogman]

would karen like the show bojack horseman ? or is bojack a bad representation for horses

Yeah, I really think she would, since the show taps into some of her key interests.

Aside from the constant horse rep, there's also the show's insanely good continuity in both episode plots and in gags between episodes, which'd likely hit the spot thanks to Karen's love for consistency. Karen's sense of a humour is a bit dry/absurdist, so I think she'd also find the writing funny.

On the subject of which characters she'd like: I feel she'd really identify with Hollyhock, very much like Judah + PC and empathize the most with Hollyhock + Princess Carolyn in particular. If she could say anything to Bojack, it'd be "gAH, stop DOING THOSE THINGS, you crusty sad-ass HORSE."

[simplydnp]

Thank you for the trombone champ love in your tags. I feel like that video is slept on but it is soooooo unhinged and funny.

it's such a good video. it fits their sense of humour so well--the slightly absurdist humour but also deeply complex lore, the fact that even if you play WELL it still sounds bad, the rhythm game base of it all. truly a great mix for dnp. and i'm absolutely biased and wearing my clown nose but it feels like it was recorded for me specifically because i had been campaigning all of gamingmas for phil to wear the catboy merch cause he hadn't yet and really it's only fair--and then he DID in this one. and didn't acknowledge it or even shill the merch. icons only.